An intriguing and entertaining study in characters going through varying levels of crisis and introspection. This psychological drama leads you in several different directions, weaving and intersecting various subplots and characters, from a brilliant Tom Cruise, as a self-proclaimed pied-piper, to a child forced to go on a TV game show and the pressures he faces from a ruthless father. Also starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Julianne Moore, John C. Reilly, William H. Macy and Philip Baker Hall.